Re: CULT: Chinese Treasure

A search of the archives shows that CHINESE TREASURE 'bloomed reliably'
and "keeps going like the Energizer bunny" in Virginia (Griff Crump, on
the tidal Potomac), usually a better place than the 'vale of despair',
but at least wet and hot in summer and maybe even occasionally some of
the same spring freeze damage we see most years.

Also, Donald, you mentioned it doing well for you one year, which is
definitely a bad place for a TB to be, but the post said it was a Shoop
iris, not Blyth - did you maybe get the cultivar names mixed up, or just
the hybridizer?

And even a post about it blooming for Joni in Georgia with two stalks on
a first year plant!

And a recommendation of it as a good plant for beginners from Maureen
Mark in Ottawa, "struggled a bit the first year", slow growing, but
"does well every year".

"Light rot" for Dennis Kramb in Cincinnati, Ohio USA;

And last, but certainly far from least, Walter Moores in Mississippi
said it "did well before I moved it"

If CT grows in all these climates, CHANGING SEASONS is an even better
gamble.

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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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